SOUTH BERWICK, Maine — It could be challenging to find a silver lining to an 0-4 start, but that’s what the Marshwood High School boys soccer team is faced with doing.

The latest Hawks loss came against defending Class A champion Scarborough, which left Marshwood with a 4-0 Western Maine Class A victory on Tuesday afternoon.

“We’re a very young team and we’ve had some tough opponents to start the season,” Marshwood coach Ben Deschene said. “Scarborough is one of the toughest teams we’ll have to play. You’re never happy with a loss, but I thought we showed signs of growth today.”

Four different scorers netted goals for Scarborough (2-1), which returns five players from last year’s 16-0-2 championship squad.

“I thought we played well in the midfield and passed the ball pretty well,” Scarborough coach Mark Diaz said. “Obviously you’d like to finish better, but we had some positive results.”

Marshwood trailed 1-0 following Wyatt Omsberg’s header 5:20 into the game. Sam Cekada fed Jacob McGarvey for a goal past Marshwood goalie Samuel Leathe (14 saves) to give the Red Storm a 2-0 lead with 30:53 left in the half.

“Scarborough really controlled the midfield,” Deschene said. “That’s what they do really well.”

Marshwood was playing without injured strikers Riley Dinsmore-Patch (concussion) and Tobias Lamberts (foot), along with midfielder Logan Smith (illness). The Hawks had only three players on the bench.

The Hawks dropped their first three games by scores of 7-0 (Gorham), 4-3 (Noble) and 5-1 (Cheverus). Captain Hanssen Casey was moved from midfield in an effort to tighten up the defense. Ryan Fife also turned in a strong game on defense.

“I think in our next game against Massebesic, we’ll have a good strategy coming in,” Casey said. “We’ve been improving every game.”

Deschene hopes wins will follow once his team gets healthy and plays a less stressful part of its schedule.

“I think we played better at times today against a very good team,” Deschene said. “We’re definitely improving every day. It’s just instilling that confidence on the field in order to be competitive.”